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Page 2 THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE April 28, 1978
Goldmann urges U.S.
to break ‘pro-Israel lobby’
WASHINGTON—Dr Nahum
Goldmann, the former president of
the World Jewish Congress, has
privately urged the Carter
administration to break the pro-
Israel lobby in the U.S.
During meetings late last year
with Secretary of State Cyrus
Vance, national security adviser
Zbigniew Brzezinski and then-
White House aide Mark Siegel, the
Jewish leader also called the
Conference of Presidents of Major
American Jewish Organizations “a
disruptive force” and a “major
obstacle" to Middle East peace
negotiations.
Goldmann, who has long
opposed Prime Minister Begin’s
foreign policies, pleaded with the
U.S. leaders not to back off from a
confrontation with the American
Jewish community. He said that
Carter would even stand to gain
politically if he thus managed to
achieve a peace settlement. The
president would become “the hero
of the Jews,” Goldmann said.
These revelations are reported in
a forthcoming article in “New
York” magazine by freelance
writer Sol Stern. Well-placed
sources here and in New York have
confirmed these allegations, saying
that Goldmann had told the
Americans to go ahead with the
confrontation during the recent
World Jewish Congress meeting in
Washington late last year.
Mark Siegel, Who resigned as
President Carter's liaison with the
American Jewish community a few
weeks ago to protest U.S. policy in
the Middle East, told The
Jerusalem Post earlier this month
that he had felt for several months
that there may be some people in
the administration who actually
believe that a public confrontation
between the U.S. and Israel may be
in order, “so as to jar Israel from its
present negotiating position."
Dr. Nahum Goldmann
Rabbi Alexander Schindler
Siegel then went on to say: “I
don’t want to use any names, but
there is a very prominent person in
world Jewry who believes that
American Jewish support for
Israel is so solid—such a rock—
that the Israeli government will
never feel it has to negotiate unless
American Jewry is somehow
broken, that its power is at least
diminished. That view is shared by
some high officials in the
administration. ”
It has now been confirmed that
Siegel was referring to Goldmann,
who stepped down as president of
the World Jewish Congress last
year. He was replaced by Philip
Klutznick, a Chicago business
man.
The article in “New York"
magazine also contains some
previously undisclosed details of
the strong opposition within
certain quarters of the American
Jewish leadership to Begin’s
policies. It is entitled “The Jewish
lobby's secret clash with
Menachem Begin."
The article says that U.S. Jewish
leaders, including Rabbi
Alexander Schindler, chairman of
the Conference of Presidents of
Major American Jewish
Organizations, have been working
quietly behind the scenes to try to
soften Begin’s positions on
territorial withdrawal from the
West Bank, on the creation of new
settlements in the territories, and
on an interpretation of UN
Security Council Resolution 242.
According to the report, the
Jewish leaders have been urging
Begin to accept Carter's proposals
for a declaration of principles
governing the negotiations.
In addition, the American
Jewish Committee has put the
Israeli government on notice that it
may issue a public statement
dissenting from the Israeli view on
Resolution 242. Hyman
Bookbinder, Washington
representative of the committee, is
quoted as having said that Begin
"is not unaware" of the
committee’s “misgivings" over
Israeli policy.
There is also a lengthy section in
the article on Schindler’s allegedly
private protestations to Begin over
Israeli policy, even though the
American Jewish leader has taken
a consistently supportive stance in
public.
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